10“Truly, truly I say to you, the one who does not enter through the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up at some other place—that one is a thief and a robber. ²But the one who enters through the door is the shepherd of the sheep. ³For this one the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. ⁴Whenever he sends out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice. ⁵And they will never follow a stranger, but will flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers.” ⁶Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand what it was that he was saying to them.

⁷Then Jesus said to them^a again, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. ⁸All those who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep do not listen to them. ⁹I am the door. If anyone enters through me, he will be saved, and will come in and will go out and will find pasture. ¹⁰The thief comes only^b so that he can steal and kill and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, and have it^* abundantly.

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John 10:10: The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

Footnotes

aSome manuscripts omit “to them”
bLiterally “does not come except”
*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation